Not even close to the way 2016 started, but then again, 2016 wasn’t all that bad.

Right?

For a little while it looked as if 2017 was going to start off with a major disappointment as the market decided to do something that it hadn’t done for a while.

In fact, it hasn’t really happened since we accepted the fact that we were getting someone very unexpected as our new President.

What happened today was that the stock market actually followed oil, again.

That was the story for most of 2016 and the story worked out pretty well, as long as you didn’t sell your oil losers in 2015, or repeatedly went back to the literal and figurative well in pursuit of the gains.

Even though there wasn’t too much evidence that the rise in oil prices was actually tied to increasing demand, the stock market just looked at a year of slowly, if not steadily increasing oil prices, as a good thing.